Update from Angie

Hey all! My apologies for the lack of blog updates, but I promise you that no slacking has been going on at chez Fox. Oh no. I’ve been writing like crazy on not one, but three new projects. Yay!

Let me take this chance to tell you about My Zombie Valentine. It’s a new anthology and I’m really excited about it. My story is called Gentlemen Prefer Voodoo. It’s about Amie, a voodoo shop owner in New Orleans who decides to use a little of her magic to summon the ‘perfect man’ for her. Only her ideal guy just happened to have died one hundred and ninety eight years ago and has been residing in a vault in St. Louis Cemetery Number One. Oops. Imagine Amie’s surprise when her spell brings him back to his hunky senses and he decides to pay her a visit.

I had a lot of fun with this one.

Also, we’ll be announcing a winner soon for the “name a character” contest below. So if you haven’t signed up to win a walk-on role in my upcoming book, A Tale of Two Demon Slayers, now’s your chance.

Finally, if you’ve been craving a Kiss My Asphalt t-shirt, I have some new ones in and they are, as Pirate would say, fierce. I’m going to be giving lots of them away at a live chat this afternoon. Tune in anytime between 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. EST at Romance in the Backseat.

Are YOU Part Demon Slayer?

Sure Las Vegas is wild and crazy, but demon-infested? Lizzie and the gang are going to need all the help they can get. Test your demon slaying skill with the not-so-scientific, totally made up for your amusement Are You Part Demon Slayer? quiz. And, of course, with every quiz there must be a rocking contest. At least that’s my rule.

Post your score below and enter to win a walk-on role in my next book, A Tale of Two Demon Slayers, due out in February 2010. The contest runs through May 2009.

So:
Take the quiz
Tell us your score below
And you could have your real name (or a friend’s) appear in my next book!

The dog has done it again

Why is it that I blog (mostly) regularly for a year now, yet Pirate the dog blogs once and wins the “I Love Your Blog” award?

It’s just not fair, I tell you. I mean sure – he’s cute, and it’s fun to pet his belly, and he does ride a motorcycle. But what else does he have on this author? Plenty, it seems.

So here it is, Pirate’s fancy new award, courtesy of Bitten by Books.

Some doggies have all the luck.

Then again, I have the t-shirts. This weeks Kiss My Asphalt t-shirt winner is Christie Hollie!

Oh and stay tuned – I’m launching a new contest next week where you can win a walk-on part in the next Accidental Demon Slayer book. If you ever wanted to rub Pirate’s belly in person, here’s your chance. Along with it, (of course) will be a new fun quiz: Are You Part Demon Slayer?

Stay tuned…

A few words from Pirate the dog

Hiya! I’m Pirate, the most handsome Jack Russell Terrier you will ever meet. Now usually I stay in the background. I’m not an in-your-face kind of dog. Unless you have a turkey sandwich. Or chips or maybe a piece of bacon. I love bacon.

Now what were we talking about? Oh yeah. Angie is busy on her computer – typing away. Something about a new book deadline that I’m not allowed to talk about yet. But in the mean time, she’s neglecting her blog and that’s just not right. So seeing as I’m a talking dog and all, I thought I’d help her out.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from when I went to Las Vegas for The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers. The first one is a sausage sandwich I got from Jodi Maroini’s Sausage Kingdom. It was so good I think I swallowed it whole.

This here is the Las Vegas Strip. You’ve never seen so many advertisements for free buffets. It almost makes me wish Ezra the ghost hadn’t taught me how to read. But I needed to learn to play Scrabble, so…

This is when I found some free french fries.

And the babes in Vegas. Ohh ee. Now I barked, but I don’t think she heard me on account of how loud it is on The Strip. Isn’t she fierce?

And finally, this is my favorite picture of bacon. Notice how it’s all sizzly on the sides. Mmm…

Okay, there’s a squirrel in the yard so I gotta go. But before I do, Angie wanted me to tell you all that the winner of this week’s Kiss My Asphalt t-shirt giveaway is Blackroze!

Kiss My Asphalt! Double winner.

I was just sitting down to write a bit when I thought, “hey, who wants a t-shirt?” And since it’s a gorgeous day out, let’s give away two.

The winners are:

Jewlz Dore and Joyce Hurley

Now before I get back to writing, some people have been emailing and asking about a third Accidental Demon Slayer book. There will be a book 3. Right now, I’m calling it A Tale of Two Demon Slayers. In fact, I’ll be writing part of it this afternoon. Chapter eight to be exact. I don’t want to give too much away, but let’s just say Lizzie and Dimitri finally make it back to his hometown in Greece – and well – they’re in for a few surprises. A Tale of Two Demon Slayers is slated for release in February of 2010.

We have a release date on the anthology

As some of you know, I recently wrote a story for The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2. It was neat because I read all kinds of vampire books, but had never tried writing one.

My editor, Trisha, sent the cover over yesterday. I had to smile because the vampire on the front looks a lot like the heroine in my story, Princess Katarina Volholme D’ Transylvania, an eight-hundred-and-seventy three-year-old vampire who decides to rebel. Too bad for her, she does it on International Undead TV.

And get this – the release date is October 31, 2009. How fun is that?

Monday t-shirt winner

I was just sitting down with a Diet Coke and a cheese sandwich (breakfast of champions) getting ready to write, when I realized you probably want to know who won this week’s stylish, yet comfy Kiss My Asphalt t-shirt. Well, wonder no longer. The winner is Karin Tillotson, also known as Candy Knickers No Brakes. Congrats, Karin!

Kiss My Asphalt

Lookie. You like? These are the Kiss My Asphalt t-shirts, based on the shirt Grandma wears in the first scene of The Accidental Demon Slayer. The picture doesn’t show this, but the letters are in metallic silver type. It’s what all of the stylish biker witches are wearing. And now you can, too! I’m giving a t-shirt away each week to my newsletter subscribers. Want to get in on it? Just drop me an email at angie@angiefox.com. Easy pleasy.

And along those lines, I received an email this morning from intrepid reader Judy, who pointed out (wisely) that I have not been announcing the Kiss My Asphalt t-shirt winners on my blog. I mean, what good is it to get a free t-shirt if you don’t get bragging rights too?

So Judy gets a t-shirt for getting me back on track, and I’ll be announcing a new t-shirt winner every Monday.

Happy Monday

Sorry I was AWOL for a bit. For some reason, WordPress decided I resembled an imposter and refused to let me onto my site. I mean, sure I just threw my hair back into a ponytail and these jeans aren’t exactly what you’d call dress up clothes, but I don’t look that shady. Especially not in this hot pink Trix t-shirt.

Anyhow, thanks  to Anthony at the help desk, things are running smoothly again – which is good because I have a lot to report. First off, there has been such a demand for advanced reading copies (ARCs) of The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers that my publisher wasn’t able to save any for me to give away. I’m both flattered and bummed. Of course I wish I would have anticipated this, since – erm – there’s an ARC contest happening on this very blog. So I’ll tell you what – anyone that has entered the contest as of today, email me at angie @angiefox.com and I’ll send you a cover flat for The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers. My treat.

In other news, this months issue of RT magazine is featuring the original query letter for The Accidental Demon Slayer. For those of you not familiar with book-speak, a query is an introduction letter that authors use to secure an agent or editor for that all important first book. So if you get RT magazine, check it out. If you don’t, here’s a version of the article in blog form.

Oh and I just received a new batch of Kiss My Asphalt t-shirts and they are friggin’ awesome. Seriously. My designer really outdid himself. They’re just like Grandma would wear. Stay tuned because I’m going to be giving lots of them away.

Pirate says süße glückliche junge Hunde

No, that’s not a computer glitch up there. That’s the German translation for Sweet Happy Puppies! It’s what I imagine Pirate would say if he saw me signing the contracts this afternoon to give Bertelsmann/Random House the rights to publish The Accidental Demon Slayer in German.

For some reason, the whole thing has me grinning. Maybe it’s because my family is originally from the Black Forest area of Germany (They changed Fuchs to Fox when they hit the U.S.).  Or maybe it’s the idea that the biker witches are going to get to ride the mean streets of Munich, Vienna, Dresden and the like. But, really, I think it’s the idea that a book that was written while sitting on our green couch has started to take on a life of its own. How fun is that? Or should I say, “wie lustig das ist?”

I just wish I actually spoke German without the help of a handy dandy online translator, which I’m embarrassed to say, has had the power to entertain me for far too long this afternoon. But please indulge me one more time when I say: küssen Sie meinen Asphalt.